Passenger finds ‘chilling’ note from bag handler: An airline passenger who had two “No War with Iraq” signs in his suitcase says the federal security agent who opened his luggage inserted a note criticizing his “anti-American attitude.” Perhaps the baggage handler should be forgiven as one of those 2:5 Americans who believe Saddam Hussein was behind the WTC bombing. I’ve wondered if it was only a coincidence that my car was towed on the day several months ago after I applied an antiwar bumper sticker (I restrained myself; nothing obscene or threatening). There would be a precedent. I was once, around twenty-five or thirty years ago, severely hassled during a routine traffic stop for a bumper sticker reading “Subvert the Dominant Paradigm.” The police officer in a suburb of Boston told me he thought he understood what I meant by it and, if so, he didn’t like it. Is my current bumper sticker abit obtuse as well: “Blame Florida, Not Iraq” ? Now I can understand extending the right of free expression in the direction of considered violation of the law in the service of higher principles, intentionally inviting arrest — it will come to that, it probably will — but this is far short of that. Freedom of opinion with moral clarity in Ashcroft’s America takes courage and defiance…